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Just thinking about the date and pattern of this piece. I guess the flame pontil would date it to sometime in the 70s, however am I correct in thinking that this is a relatively earlyish pattern and could date from sometime between 1973 and 1975. Assuming if it was any earlier, it would have either a broken pontil mark or the coachbolt mark.

The paper label has come off, I've attached a separate photo below. Very similar to the label in Mark Hill's book although doesn't have the England wording. I purchased the bottle from a collector in the states so don't know if this has a bearing on the omission of the 'England' wording.

I was interested in the date and duration this could have been produced primarily as you mention this design was never an established one at Isle of Wight Studio Glass. As I don't generally collect Isle of Wight Glass my knowledge of how long this particular design would have run is somewhat limited. I was guessing correctly or incorrectly that the bottle was likely to be pre 1975 in date as after this date most pieces produced would have fallen into a specific range of one kind or another.

Perhaps your reaction to the colour explains why it never made it as an established range. I must confess I quite like it, so maybe its just like Marmite.

1974 probably, pink swirls on it's own doesn't seem to have been made for very long (I vaguely remember Ron saying 1974). The obviously earlier bits that I have with a paper label also have England omitted.

It is an 'established' design just not in a colour that was used for long.

Sue is just fibbing, she's using reverse psychology - she wants it for her birthday!

Again, Ron Wheeler might have more definitive info. Pink and blue swirls did not turn out to be that popular either, running from 1974-1976. It was tortoiseshell that was most successful running for almost ten years - brown was big in the seventies....

I do have vague memories of growing up with an avocado bathroom suite in the seventies, I thought I had erased it from my memory. They do say fashions quite often run in cycles, but lets hope not in this case.

I've not managed to get any pink swirl bits yet so I'm quite green yet again - Greg you seem to have a knack of upsetting my natural English Rose complexion (no need for you to mention my thorny bits John) and turning me into a Shrek lookalike.